On Jan 3, 2008 12:47 PM, Jay Montero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My daughter's new HP laptop with Vista works fine except when it goes
> to sleep it disconnects from the wireless router. She can reconnect
> manually no problem. But is there any way to reconnect automatically
> (or better yet st
>It really depends on the hardware.
Same is true for Macs. One would expect Apple's control of both the
hardware and software to give them an advantage, but waking from sleep
has been problematic for years.
This would never have happened under OS 9.
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It really depends on the hardware. I have some laptops at work that won't
reconnect their integrated Intel NICs coming out of sleep in XP. My laptop
at home has a Netgear wireless card and it reconnects automatically out of
sleep just fine; same with the Nvidia NIC on my home PC. I've seen other
My daughter's new HP laptop with Vista works fine except when it goes
to sleep it disconnects from the wireless router. She can reconnect
manually no problem. But is there any way to reconnect automatically
(or better yet stay connected)?